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Associated Press - December 3, 2009 1:54 PM ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Mississippi man has been charged with fraudulently receiving $138,400 in federal loan money after Hurricane Katrina.
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., began a hearing Wednesday on case-management miscues after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, noting a litany of the problems experienced by the storms' victims. Landrieu said many agencies, private and public, were more concerned about process than...
Peters faces a maximum of 10 years in jail
Washington, D.C., Nov. 30, 2009 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Dallas and New Orleans-based hurricane restoration company and several executives for lying about non-existent business deals in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and fraudulently inflating the company's stock price before the company's CEO sold millions of dollars in company shares.
The Atlantic hurricane season ended this Monday with barely a whimper: Not a single hurricane came ashore in the United States. Since June, when the season began, just nine named storms developed. ...
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- The Atlantic hurricane season ended Monday with barely a whimper' Not a single hurricane came ashore in the United States. Since June, when the season began, just nine named storms developed. Only three of them became hurricanes, and those stayed out at sea or weakened before passing over land. Two tropical storms made landfall in the U.S., causing little more than rain and ...
The federal appeals court in New Orleans on Nov. 25 dismissed class-action lawsuits for Hurricane Katrina-related damages against 32 major dredging contractors.
Newsline: Church of the Brethren News Service, News Director Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, 800-323-8039 ext. 260, cobnews@brethren.org BRETHREN GRANTS GIVE $105,000 FOR HURRICANE RECOVERY IN HAITI, LOUISIANA (Dec. 3, 2009) Elgin, IL -- Grants from the Church of the Brethren's Emergency Disaster Fund have given $105,000 for rebuilding and recovery following hurricane damage ...
JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi's largest insurer is getting nearly a 20 percent wind insurance rate increase for Gulf Coast policyholders, state Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said Monday.
HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) - The University of Southern Mississippi is one step closer to getting its Gulf Coast campus administration building replaced. USM was originally denied funding for the building, so it applied for arbitration in efforts to be approved for $1.5 million to replace the building.
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Ground will be broken Sunday for construction of the new Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum in Biloxi. The $10.5 million library will replace the one lost to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi's largest insurer is getting nearly a 20 percent wind insurancerate increase for Gulf Coast policyholders, state Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said Monday.
The national touring company of The Color Purple has raised over $300,000 to put New Orleans families back into their homes after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Crescent City in 2005.
When New Orleans homeless advocate Jessie J. Pullins was forced to evacuate the Big Easy in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he followed orders from city officials and left his 3-year-old black Labrador retriever mix, JJ, enclosed in a room in his home with plenty of food and water.
Some Hurricane Katrina flooding victims in Louisiana could be eligible for compensation from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, thanks to a recent decision by a federal judge in New Orleans. On November 18, 2009, Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr. of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, issued a ruling finding the [...]
A gratefully relieved Earl Bullock leaned back in a chair of the conference area at Bassfield City Hall on Thursday, looking a bit like the kid who found the gift he really wanted under the tree on Christmas morning.
